This chapter sets out the main aims and objectives of the volume and the methodology used to conduct the research. In this book we want to move beyond the stereotypes and well-circulated conspiracies. We use the different levels of the court system as a lens through which we can ask questions about broader patterns of delivering justice in Russia and capture empirically the variety of experiences that different individuals and institutional actors who use the courts have of their individual pursuits of justice. In short, in this Introduction we argue that Russian justice is a much more complex system than is commonly supposed, and that it both requires and deserves a more nuanced understanding. The main contribution that links the ethnographic accounts of the different chapters is the emergence of a specific and unique model of justice delivery in Russia, which we dub as the administerial model justice. Finally, the introduction spells out the content of the volume and presents the outline of the chapters.